“I
went at your bidding, and passed along their thoroughfares of trade.
I ascended their mountains and went down their valleys. I visited
their manufactories, their commercial markets, and emporiums of trade.
I entered their judicial courts and legislative halls. But I sought
everywhere in vain for the secret of their success, until I entered
the church. It was there, as I listened to the soul-equalizing and
soul-elevating principles of the Gospel of Christ, as they fell from
Sabbath to Sabbath upon the masses of the people, that I learned why
America was great and free, and why France was a slave.” –
Alexis de Tocqueville, French historian reporting to the French Senate,
1800s

A
few years before Dr. D. James Kennedy passed away, I spent an afternoon
with him at his church in Florida. Dr. Kennedy is the founder of world-renown
Coral Ridge Ministries, known for stating on national television regarding
abortion (while pointing his finger at his viewers), “Four thousand
die daily and 300,000 pulpits are silent.”

On
one occasion, Dr. Kennedy told me that while he was holding a large
convention at his church, the homosexual lobby was protesting him.

A
pastor attending the convention was shocked and asked, “Why
is your church being protested?”

D.
James Kennedy corrected this pastor with a relevant question: “You
mean, your church doesn’t get protested?”

Friends,
protestant has meaning: protest – ant.

America
is looking for the Christ that 78 percent of Americans claim they
serve.

Agree
or disagree with him, Rev. Charles Finney stated:

“Brethren,
our preaching will bear its legitimate fruits. If immorality prevails
in the land, the fault is ours in a great degree. If there is a decay
of conscience, the pulpit is responsible for it. If the public press
lacks moral discrimination, the pulpit is responsible for it. If the
church is degenerate and worldly, the pulpit is responsible for it.
If the world loses its interest in religion, the pulpit is responsible
for it. If Satan rules in our halls of legislation, the pulpit is
responsible for it. If our politics become so corrupt that the very
foundations of our government are ready to fall away, the pulpit is
responsible for it.”

How
deprived is the understanding of the modern church when it comes to
its own history!

Nowadays,
effeminate hirelings have infiltrated the pulpits – pulpits
they have no business occupying.

By
the looks of them, I can see why the enemies of America are so encouraged.
Instead of preaching against sin (transgression of God’s Law
– 1 John 3:4), these hirelings accept sin, attempting to cover
it with a false grace (Isaiah 30) – and in so doing, teach their
congregants to war against a just and holy God (Micah 3:5).

What
a contrast to the preachers who thundered from America’s pulpits
before, during and after the Revolutionary War, causing the colonists
to stand up in the face of tyranny. The British labeled them as the
much-feared “Black Robed Regiment.” The British were not
the only ones who recognized them as the bulwarks of America’s
Independence:

“Mighty
men they were, of iron nerve and strong hand and unblanched cheek
and heart of flame. God needed not reeds shaken by the wind, not men
clothed in soft raiment [Matthew 11:7-8], but heroes of hardihood
and lofty courage. … And such were the sons of the mighty who
responded to the Divine call.” –Bishop Charles Galloway,
1898

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“The
ministers of the Revolution were, like their Puritan predecessors,
bold and fearless in the cause of their country. No class of men contributed
more to carry forward the Revolution and to achieve our independence
than did the ministers. … [B]y their prayers, patriotic sermons,
and services [they] rendered the highest assistance to the civil government,
the army, and the country.” – Historian B. F. Morris,
1864

“The
Constitutional Convention and the written Constitution were the children
of the pulpit.” –Historian Alice Baldwin, 1918

Today
the professed church is attempting to flee from its responsibility
to be part of the political process when in fact God is the one who
gave government (Exodus 18:21). The church is to overcome evil with
good. And as our forefathers rightly stated, “Resistance to
tyrants is obedience to God.”

Let’s
look at the primitive church’s actions through Scripture so
we can reform and align ourselves with God’s original intent
for the church. And surprise, surprise – guess who they were
standing against?

Bradlee Dean
exposes anti-gun mayors who are found out to be criminals. Dean then
parallels today’s gun-grabbers with dictators in history who
promised their citizens protection and freedom under the guise of
gun control.